Autonomous Trucks
Stakeholders debated at a congressional hearing Tuesday the extent to which the government should be involved in protecting the workforce against potential negative consequences of vehicle automation. As the trucking industry advances from semi-automation to driverless trucks, one concern drivers have raised is their eroding privacy as autonomous systems make increasing use of in-cab video monitoring. Most importantly, whatever they determine will be done in secret, so the rest of the public won’t learn what happened and if there’s a real widespread problem. This historically has had little to do with automated vehicles, but there’s no reason to expand this” into this industry, Levine said. The coalition emphasized that nearly 14% of crashes involved a truck, and that one in three long-haul truck drivers experiences a serious crash in his or her career.